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  1. M

    Adding 8x SSDs to a Mac Pro 5,1

    Hi, I'm looking to buy a cheap Mac Pro 5,1 from ebay soon and wanted to add some fast storage to it. I was looking into the Newertech MAXPower RAID Mini SAS 6G2e card to give me 2 external SAS connectors to plug in up to 8 drives. This was all great in my head until I realised I'd neglected...
    • mrmeister
    • Thread
    • external jbod raid raid enclosure sas
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  2. prvt.donut

    PSA: Don't put off backup management until it is too late! How to prepare for the worst!

    A recent post by yet another user whose RAID 5 array failed and due to unautomated backups is now facing a huge bill to recover missing data from a data recovery company that led me to create this thread. Too many companies and IT professionals haven't had this drilled into them enough and as a...
    • prvt.donut
    • Thread
    • backup data failure integrity raid recovery replication storage
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  3. flying.squirrel

    15k drives with RAID

    early MacPro 3,1 with RAID card and 2 15k rpm drives. Want to toss this RAID card so bad. Sorry I ever got it. That being said, if I yank out the RAID card can I still use the two 15k drives? One for OS and other for Logic, say? I'm assuming there are cables connecting each to RAID? How...
  4. V

    Restore from Time Machine Backup doesn't see external RAID drive

    Hello everyone, I have a problem with restoring my iMac from a Time Machine backup, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same issue already. I had to reinstall OS X El Capitan from scratch, based on instruction I received from Apple Support. That worked without any issues and my iMac...
  5. W

    Xserve RAID with MNPA19-XTR

    Hi, I have an Xserve RAID and I want to connect it to a PowerEdge 1950 III running Windows Server 2012 R2. Does anyone know if the Mellanox ConnectX-2 Single-Port SFP+ 10GBE Network Card (MNPA19-XTR) will work with the Xserve RAID? I have connected the two with an Apple SFP cable and the...
    • wylie78
    • Thread
    • fibre raid sfp windows server 2012 r2 xserve
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Networking
  6. W

    Anyone know how to setup raid 10 in terminal?

    Hey everyone, Anyone here know the steps to setting up raid 10 in terminal (el capitan)? It should still be doable correct? Thanks, Matt
  7. W

    Raid 5 over 300MB/s write possible?

    Hey everyone, My knowledge concerning external raid is pretty limited. However, I can't seem to find a raid enclosure that can get reasonable write speeds for terabytes of data with redundancy. I'm limited to USB 3 and esata speeds being on a 2009 Mac Pro (no thunderbolt). From what I...
  8. henchr

    MacBook 5,1 - RAID risks?

    Hi there! I've got a late 2008 Macbook, my old trusty workhorse, with two internal SSD's (Samsung and SanDisk). I usually don't run it through any hard usage anymore, except for light Photoshop work and web-browsing, but looking into ways to upgrade it even further. I've been tinkering with the...
    • henchr
    • Thread
    • macbook 5.1 raid ssd
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: MacBook
  9. W

    Raid 5 enclosure benchmarks

    Hey everyone, Im looking to buy an external enclosure for my Mac Pro equipped with esata/USB 3 connections. I would like to set it up in raid 10 or 5 with carbon copy cloner. Wise choice, dumb decision, thoughts, recommendations? I was wondering if anyone has some benchmarks to share? Thanks, Matt
  10. W

    Classic Mac Pro w/ M.2 and USB 3.0 pcie

    Hey there everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me with some of my questions. I am looking to add m.2 drives to my 2009 Mac Pro (5,1 flash). I need some extremely fast read write times to work with RAW 4k RED footage. But at the same time I would like to have a USB 3 or 3.1 card to...
    • wiski15b
    • Thread
    • bandwidth classic lanes mac pro pcie raid usb 3 usb 3.0 usb 3.1 x16
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  11. C

    Help needed, partitioning an external RAID drive for Windows (El Capitan)

    Hi, new member here, So I have recently purchased a LaCie Big2 12tb HDD with RAID. This is to go with my iMac that has a Bootcamp Windows partition generally used for playing games. What I want to do is use the LaCie drive in a RAID 1 configuration for the OSX partition. I then want to create...
  12. F

    RAID on El Capitan (Lacie little big disc)

    This is probably no news for anyone at this point.. just wanted to share my frustration and I hope my experience will also be useful for other people who use RAID drives. I remembered Apple's screw-up with wi-fi on Yosemite, so I decided to wait for a while before upgrading to El Capitan...
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